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TIMOLEAGUE ABBEY - Ruínas do século 13 - Ruins from the 13th Century

O Welcome to Ireland quer que você conheça o interior da Ilha Esmeralda!! Saindo das atrações mais habituais você encontra incríveis pequenas jóias escondidas por todo o país.E hoje a gente te leva para Timoleague Abbey, que fica do lado do pequeno vilarejo Timoleague, a 48 KM de Cork City.Welcome to Irelandwants you to visit the Emerald Island countryside! Leaving the most regular attractions you find small jewels hidden across the country.,And today we will take you to Timoleague Abbey, who is next to the small village of Timoleague, 48 Km from Cork City.

Ali você visitará incríveis ruínas de um mosteiro que foi construído em meados do século 13 por freis Franciscanos, durante os séculos foi sofrendo vários ataques e reformas.You will be visiting incredible ruins of an abbey built on the middle of the 13th Century by Franciscan friars (monks), along the centuries it received several attacks and renovations.

Here is where a very important medieval book was written, the Book of Lismore, written in animal skin and which has priceless information about the Irish Saints: St. Patrick, St, Brigid and St. Columba - and about the abbey's day by day. It was lost for centuries, and fortunately it was found on county Wexford in 1814.

Em 1642 foi terrivelmente atacado e destruído pelas forças britânicas lideradas pelo sanguinário Cromwell.Muitas características da arquitetura original ainda estão lá e podem ser apreciadas pelos visitantes.In 1642 it was terribly attacked and destroyed by the British forces lead by the bloody Cromwell.Many features from the original architecture are still there and can be appreciated by visitors.

Algumas placas indicam onde teriam sido certas áreas da abadia e do mosteiro como a sacristia, a biblioteca e o poço d ´água.Some signs point to where certain areas from the abbey and friary were, like the sacristy, library and the water well.

Timoleague Abbey fica às margens do Rio Arigideem e você pode inclusive aproveitar as mesas de picnic que há por ali.Timoleague Abbey is on the banks of Arigideem river, and you can even enjoy the picnic tables you will find there.